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Ed Mohar · May 29th, 2010, 09:27 AM

I have some HDV footage I've captured from tape on my Mac with FCP. My associate is editing on his PPro on Windows and he can't see any video from the Quicktime file, but he gets the audio. It's obviously a codec problem and I read about this in a few places but I didn't catch what the solution is.

His laptop doesn't have a firewire port otherwise I'd simply hand him the tape and camera and have him import it.

Should I be capturing it to a different codec in FCP that PPro/Win will recognize?

Nik Skjoth · May 29th, 2010, 10:41 AM

The thing is that some FCP captured mov files cant be read on a PC...

Those files require a mac, and on top of that they require FCP to be installed before you can play them back..

There is a company: http://www.calibratedsoftware.com/ which makes FCP captured HDV files readable on a PC
http://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp

Or you can capture in ProRes instead of regular HDV

May 29th, 2010, 09:27 AM	#1
Ed Mohar Regular Crew Join Date: May 2008 Location: CNY Posts: 49	FCP/Mac --> PPro/Win7 I have some HDV footage I've captured from tape on my Mac with FCP. My associate is editing on his PPro on Windows and he can't see any video from the Quicktime file, but he gets the audio. It's obviously a codec problem and I read about this in a few places but I didn't catch what the solution is. His laptop doesn't have a firewire port otherwise I'd simply hand him the tape and camera and have him import it. Should I be capturing it to a different codec in FCP that PPro/Win will recognize?

May 29th, 2010, 10:41 AM	#2
Nik Skjoth Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cph Denmark Posts: 136	The thing is that some FCP captured mov files cant be read on a PC... Those files require a mac, and on top of that they require FCP to be installed before you can play them back.. There is a company: http://www.calibratedsoftware.com/ which makes FCP captured HDV files readable on a PC http://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp Or you can capture in ProRes instead of regular HDV Last edited by Nik Skjoth; May 29th, 2010 at 11:17 AM.